Earth Sandwich / City antipodes / Fort Worth

Antipode finder · United States

The antipode of
Fort Worth.

Draw a straight line from Fort Worth (32.73° N, 97.32° W) through the centre of the Earth and it comes out at 32.73° S, 82.68° E, in the Indian Ocean, 731 km from the nearest dry land, off the coast of the French Southern Territories. The other slice of an Earth sandwich would sink.

Two globes: one centred on Fort Worth, one centred on its antipode at 32.73° S, 82.68° E
Above Fort WorthAbove the antipode
Fort Worth
32.73° N, 97.32° W · about 200 m above sea level · 1,008,106 people
Antipode
32.73° S, 82.68° E
What is there
The Indian Ocean; the sea floor there lies about 3,720 m below the surface
Nearest dry land
731 km from the antipode, on the coast of the French Southern Territories
Nearest town
Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories · 2,117 km from the antipode
Nearest big city
Perth · 3,106 km from the antipode
Sandwich verdict
SOGGY the other slice lands in open water
Nearest exact spot
732 km away, 34 km from Lamar, United States ⇄ 1,410 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories

Can you make an Earth sandwich from Fort Worth?

No, not from Fort Worth itself. The other slice would land in the Indian Ocean, 731 km from the nearest dry land (the French Southern Territories), where the sea floor lies about 3,720 m below the surface. Boats do not count (Sandwich Law § 1.3).

The nearest place from which an exact Earth sandwich is possible is 732 km from Fort Worth, 34 km from Lamar, United States. Its other slice would go down 1,410 km from Port-aux-Français, French Southern Territories.

How this was worked out: the antipode flips the latitude and moves the longitude by 180°. Land or sea comes from the OpenStreetMap coastline the map uses; the sandwich verdict and elevations come from the verifier's 0.2° grid (Natural Earth land, ETOPO 2022 relief); water names from Natural Earth; towns and populations from GeoNames. The city's position is GeoNames' point for it; a big city's suburbs spread tens of kilometres around that point, and the figures move with them. Generated 2026-09-29.